The Ivory Italian Grand is great ! That is a beautiful sounding piano.Sensational and engrossing.ĪK needs a little tweaking,but there are many tools inside Kontakt that open her up and give her a different complexion. My two BIG picks are the Ivory Italian Grand II and Alicia's Keys. I have quite a few of the piano libraries mentioned here and have tried most of the others. you won't go wrong with either Ivory II or QL Pianos. Like I've said, if you're looking for realism. And I am a piano player first and foremost. In combination with a great sounding convolution reverb (QL "Spaces"), the Bosendorfer 280 for example and in a solo context is. And I also have purchased QL Pianos over Ivory, as I took advantage of a 2 for 1 sale from EastWest.
#Igrand versus pianoteq 5 full#
It's available to those who have purchased the full "TruePianos" VST (all 5 modules), which I have. And if you mean my reference to "Atlantis", it is also a module offered by TruePianos which is based on version 2 of their physics modeling engine (currently being developed). The piano included with Sonar is the "Amber" module only of the TruePianos VST. I would like to try the piano you mentioned here. I was actually referring to the included piano with Sonar. Thank you kindly for steering me there.Ĭraig- Yes I think you're right, I need both of those.You make a good point my friend! I'll look at Sampletekk too. The only other alternative I can think of is to go over to the church when theres noone else there with my recorder and a few microphones and try recording the piano.Īre you referring to QL Pianos and the PLAY engine?
Youroldpal- I went to the site and checked a good many of those files out.
I don't think it's entirely about speed either. What Pianoteq has done is pretty darned incredible and would surpass what my hardware unit can do.but those rich samples from the likes of Ivory are almost better than a real piano :) It might only be the smallest of a difference in actual response time, but I picked up on the more streamlined feel right away and I think this must be due to the much lighter load on the entire computer. I did like the response of pianoteq when compared to playing a streaming sampler. Jim- I think the Motif Xs pianos are actually some of the better ones I have heard from a sample playback hardware instrument,and even holds its own pretty decently compared to some software sample playback instruments IMHO. I would like to try the piano you mentioned here.Even with the buggy sound/playback engine I remember the samples sounding wonderful on said sample player when it worked lol. If I go there again I feel more confident but still have that taste in my mouth, know what I mean? Ivory might be the thing to push me back that way again. No doubt things have gotten much better since I last went there. I have less than fond memories of trying to make a large sample player work with a glitchy engine. I think my Q8300 with 8gb of ram could probably swing Ivory.
Do any of you use pianoteq and what has been your experience with using it? Any other suggestions for a program that won't hog my cpu and HDD?Īlgeria- Thanks for your take on this. I was immediately impressed with the better sound compared to my sampled synths. I really like the concept of the Pianoteq piano and downloaded the demo last night for the basic player edition. I'm not extremely impressed with True pianos and I don't want to to load my secondary HDD up with 100 gigs if there is no need. I mostly use a Motif rack for recording piano and it sounds passable with some material but playing that 88 key piano has me wanting more. I am thinking that I would like that kind of quality with my recordings. I recently started to play an 88 key grand piano at my church every week and the difference is like night and day when compared to a sampled keyboard. I still believe I was correct in that assumption. After playing my keyboards for years over PA systems,I had gotten to the point that I said to myself, Why get a better piano sound? it will never be noticed anyhow. I think I am slowly starting to become a piano snob.
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